Tropes associated with Masi Oka

Adorkable: Has a tendency to play characters who are this. With his admission that Hiro's personality is a lot like his own with just a little extra excitability and naivete, it seems this is at least partly due to being adorkable himself.

Catch Phrase: Hiro's "YATTA!" has become a bit of a rallying cry in the fandom. His Japanese fans are known to run up, shout "Yatta!", bow, and then scurry off.

Character Tics: According to him, it's a way of adding humor; any time you can make a character's actions identifiable, you have something to play with. Thus we have Hiro not only constantly pushing his glasses up by the bridge, but also throwing his arms in the air (usually while shouting "Yatta!" but sometimes while shouting other things), and squinching up his face as tight as he can while using his powers. Often got Lampshaded or otherwise gently poked fun at.

Dawson Casting: He doesn't look his age, so his characters are usually about a decade younger than him. Hiro was 24 when Oka was 32, and while Max hasn't been given a specific age, it's implied he was born in the 80s, compared to Oka's birth year of 1974. Sonny is 28 in the present-day of the film compared to Oka's actual age of 37, but he also plays teenage-Sonny in flashbacks and a current photo is used for his high school graduation picture.

Identical-Looking Asians: Subverts the trope, because the fact that fans recognize him from behind surprises even him, as he knows the trope exists.

Improv: Is a member of Second City and has spent a great deal of time trying to bring improv to Japan with them; he's also done some work with other improv groups.

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